chore: merge release/2.162.0 into main (#1805) #6418

Job	Run time
pre-commit	40s
pyright (3.8)	1m 2s
Pylint test (3.8)	1m 25s
pyright (3.12)	1m 4s
Unit and integration tests (ubuntu-latest, 3.8)	1m 26s
Pylint test (3.12)	1m 17s
Unit and integration tests (windows-latest, 3.8)	4m 22s
Unit and integration tests (ubuntu-latest, 3.12)	1m 36s
build-test	40s
doc-build-test	1m 39s
find-dead-code	54s
markdown-link-check	1m 8s
	17m 13s

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